Als Polen 1989/90 mit radikalen Reformen den Weg in die Marktwirtschaft einschlug, war man davon ausgegangen, daß der Agrarsektor aufgrund des großen Anteils privater Betriebe einen wesentlichen Beitrag zu einem möglichst reibungslosen Übergang der Gesamtwirtschaft leisten könnte....

Seit 25. November 1992 steht nun endgültig fest, daß sich die CSFR in zwei souveräne Staaten aufspalten wird. Damit entstehen ab 01. Januar 1993 eine marktwirtschaftlichen Reformen zugewandte Tschechische Republik mit rund 10 Mill. Einwohnern, deren Wirtschaftspotential als beträchtlich...

This paper uses Freedom House ratings to assess the impact of foreign aid on democracy. We employ an interval regression to account for Freedom House's method of rating countries. A cross-sectional analysis examining the long run effect of aid on democracy in 122 countries between 1972 and 2011...

This paper demonstrates that key driving force of anti-corruption attempts of Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is concern about the damage that corruption is causing to its legitimacy. This leads to strict control of the CPV over civil and political rights during anti-corruption process, which...

"An Unequal Democracy?: Seeing Latin America through European Eyes" is the result of a conference organized by the International Institute for Governance of Catalonia in November 2003, with support from the government of Catalonia and the Special Office in Europe of the IDB. At the conference, a...

This paper studies the effect of a political regime transition on food security and more specifically on child mortality. Using a new estimation approach, the Synthetic Control Method, we find that a political reform towards a democracy does not systematically reduce child mortality. Of the 33...

This paper uses Freedom House ratings to assess the impact of foreign aid on democracy. We employ an interval regression to account for Freedom House׳s method of rating countries. A cross-sectional analysis examining the long run effect of aid on democracy in 122 countries between 1972 and 2011...